Mercer Island Residence
A residential interior precedent utilizing a central ceiling skylight and frameless full-height glass to anchor a living room around an exterior landscape view.
- What we like about this project
- The central skylight cuts deeply into the flush timber ceiling plane without visible frame detailing.
Materials
- wood
- glass
- plaster
- metal
- fabric
Visual identifiers
- central-skylight
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- waterfront-view
- timber-ceiling
Style tags
- contemporary
- luxurious
- minimal-frame
Visual tags
- luxury-residential
- daylit
- transparent
- modern-interior
- framing
- Geometry
- Symmetrical living room layout centered on a large rectangular ceiling skylight and floor-to-ceiling perimeter glazing looking out.
- Facade system
- Full-height floor-to-ceiling sliding glass facade with minimal vertical profiles.
- Structural guess
- Post and beam construction allowing for uninterrupted glass spans.
- Spatial scale
- Generous single-story residential living hall with an elevated ceiling cut-out.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight washes downward through the central skylight, complemented by soft ambient light from the large exterior glass wall.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, luminous, and connected directly to nature through transparent boundaries.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront residential setting with a prominent mature evergreen tree visible directly through the glass.
- Spatial experience
- Gaze is pulled upward into the illuminated ceiling volume before shifting outward through transparent glazing to the landscape beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions match the calm rhythm of the natural tree branches outside.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury residential interior
- Program
- Residential living room
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, glass, plaster, metal, fabric
- Visual identifiers
- central-skylight, floor-to-ceiling-glass, waterfront-view, timber-ceiling
- Style tags
- contemporary, luxurious, minimal-frame
- Visual tags
- luxury-residential, daylit, transparent, modern-interior, framing
- Geometry
- Symmetrical living room layout centered on a large rectangular ceiling skylight and floor-to-ceiling perimeter glazing looking out.
- Facade system
- Full-height floor-to-ceiling sliding glass facade with minimal vertical profiles.
- Structural guess
- Post and beam construction allowing for uninterrupted glass spans.
- Spatial scale
- Generous single-story residential living hall with an elevated ceiling cut-out.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight washes downward through the central skylight, complemented by soft ambient light from the large exterior glass wall.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, luminous, and connected directly to nature through transparent boundaries.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront residential setting with a prominent mature evergreen tree visible directly through the glass.
- Spatial experience
- Gaze is pulled upward into the illuminated ceiling volume before shifting outward through transparent glazing to the landscape beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions match the calm rhythm of the natural tree branches outside.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury residential interior
- Program
- Residential living room
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior